Author: WHYMPER Edward
Title: Scrambles amongst the Alps. With additional Illustrations and Material from the Author's unpublished Diaries. Revised and edited by H.E.G. Tyndale. [Sixth Edition overall]. NEAR FINE COPY
Description: John Murray,, [1936]. Roy. 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece, 26 plates (one with captioned guard), very numerous illustrations in the text, a folding chart and 5 folding maps, free endpapers faintly browned; ivory buckram, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Crisp copy of the first printing of the best recent edition of the most famous mountaineering book of all time. The original engraved illustrations are supplemented by photographs. Neate W65.

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, alps, whymper, edward whymper


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